SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (AP) – Annika Sorenstam hit the ball so pure that she missed only one green and one fairway, the kind of golf that usually wins the U.S. Women’s Open.

It just wasn’t good enough to be in the lead Friday.

In a second round that was full of adventures at Orchards Golf Club, Jennifer Rosales shot out of the gate with three straight birdies and closed with a 12-foot birdie that gave her a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead over fellow Southern California alum Candie Kung and Kim Saiki.

Kung chipped in twice for birdie in her round of 68.

Saiki, trying to become the first player in 24 years to win an LPGA Tour event the week before winning a U.S. Open, finished bogey-birdie-bogey for a 68. No one had a wilder time than Michelle Wie, the 14-year-old from Hawaii, who hit a spectator with her tee shot on No. 10 and had to play out of poison ivy after driving deep into the woods on No. 14.

She compensated with enough dynamic shots for a 1-under 70.

That left Wie only four shots back going into the weekend and tied with 17-year-old Paula Creamer, who birdied the final hole for a 69.

The other teen had a tougher time. Brittany Lincicome, an 18-year-old Floridian who tied a Women’s Open record with a 66 in the first round, was shaky with her irons and her putting. She bogeyed three straight holes to reach the turn and wound up 11 shots worse at 77.

Kelly Robbins could have shot just about anything.

Just like Lincicome in the first round, Robbins drove into the left rough on No. 15 and punched under the trees and into the cup for an eagle, capping a four-hole stretch that she played in 5 under par. She followed that with three straight bogeys, then nearly holed out a sand wedge to end her roller-coaster round of 67 that put her among the dozen players under par.

“To keep myself in the ball game today was great,” Robbins said.

Rosales, who won an NCAA title at USC, was at 5-under 137 and has a lead for only the second time in a major. The other occasion was the LPGA Championship last month, when she led after the first round but couldn’t keep up with Sorenstam the rest of the way.

“Hopefully, this weekend will be different,” Rosales said.

Sorenstam and Carin Koch (67) were at 139, while Rachel Teske (69) and Moira Dunn (67) were another shot back.

The dream teens – Wie and Creamer – were joined at 1-under 141 by Robbins and Pat Hurst.

Given how the second round went, the weekend could be wide open.

“Thirty-six holes is a lot of golf at a U.S. Open,” two-time champion Juli Inkster said after her second straight round of even-par 71. “I like my position.”

The one constant came from the best player in the game.

Sorenstam, who won the LPGA Championship three weeks ago in a 36-hole final round, started to hit her stride with one she called one of her better ball-striking rounds.

“I think I’m in good position,” Sorenstam said. “I’m happy at this point.”

Sorenstam was among 75 players who had to return Friday morning to finish her round and she made double bogey on the first of 21 holes she played. She was solid the rest of the way, making two birdies on the opening three holes, hitting a delicate bump-and-run up a steep slope to 3 feet for birdie on the par-5 third to tie for the lead.

Her only mistake was a three-putt from 25 feet on No. 8, and the cheers ahead of her for Rosales’ birdie turned into a two-shot swing, and ultimately a two-shot deficit.

Still, the 33-year-old looks more comfortable with each round, unlike previous Women’s Opens when she wanted to win so badly that she got in her own way.

“I’m trying to stay really calm, and I think one of the things that’s good for me is that I’m tired,” said Sorenstam, who had to wake up at 4:30 a.m. Friday to finish her first round.

Wie, who continues to draw the largest galleries at Orchards, never allowed herself to get on a roll. Powerful drives set up easy birdies, but she gave strokes back with wayward tee shots.

She drilled her second shot on the par-5 13th into 25 feet and squatted inches from the ground – no small feat for a 6-foot kid – when it grazed the lip. That put her at 3 under, closing in on the lead. But her tee shot on the next hole hooked so sharply to the left that Wie hit a provisional in case it was unplayable.

It was in play – sort of.

“I thought my ball was lost,” she said. “But I was in poison ivy. And I was like, Can I get relief from that please?’ But I didn’t get relief. I just punched out.”

She answered with an approach that landed 6 inches behind the cup on No. 15 and spun back 6 feet for birdie, but again found trouble off the tee, this time on the 439-yard 16th hole, forcing her to lay up short of the creek. Wie hit a lob wedge from 70 yards with hopes of it spinning back to the hole, but her confident pose turned into shock when it sailed over the green, leading to double bogey.

Still, she was starting to believe she could win.

“I had a couple of ups and downs,” Wie said. “If I just get rid of the downs, then I’ll be good.”

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